Exciting Things Coming...

When our computer lab arrives we will be able to do SO MANY COOL THINGS! One of them is to regularly record student book reviews. Today I created a "voki," which was pretty easy, and I recorded the voice on my telephone. Check it out!



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Re-Cap of Fall 2007 and What to Expect in 2008!

Good golly, did this semester fly by! Some of the happenings in the library were:

• Volunteer Barbara Levy fell and broke her wrist en route to the library. She was incapacitated for about 6 weeks, but thankfully she is now recovered and is back in the library. Moreover, she successfully lobbied the city to fix the broken sidewalk where she fell! SFCers now have a slightly smooooother walk into school. Yay, Barbara!
• Students checked out a whopping 4,007 books this semester-- over double the amount checked out during the same time period last year! This means that Deena, Barbara, Bob, and new parent volunteer Mark Glasser have had their hands full shelving like mad. It ALSO means that SFCS students are READING more than ever before!
• For the first year ever, the library did not host a Scholastic Book Fair in December. Scholastic just has too many commercial tie-ins, toys, and poor-quality non-educational items. I know that students missed the fair, but I am hoping to have a fair with local, independent book store Cody's sometime this spring instead. That would be a fair we could all feel good about!
• The new Mac computer lab has still not arrived. The district has promised that it will be at school before winter break, but that does not seem likely. Keep checking the library in January! When you see a mob of students outside the library door, that will be a clue that the computers have arrived.